[Qgis-developer] Re: Removing old labelling

[Alister Hood]

> > On 03/11/2012 11:55 AM, Martin Dobias wrote:
> >> Anyway it's worth noting that when rendering text there are two
> possibilities:
> >> 1. draw text (old labeling) - faster, hard to draw buffers (currently
> >> being drawn by shifting the text several times) 2. convert text to
> >> vector path + draw path (new labeling) - slower, but with nice
> >> buffers (antialiased etc). Problems: text is converted to vectors ->
> >> harder postprocessing, bigger buffers are not drawn correctly.
> >>
> >> Martin
> >
> > Ah, that explains why the text isn't exported as text in svg files.
> > Would it be possible or make sense to do both. E.g. the text stays
> > text but a copy is converted and buffers are generated on the copy
> > that is a path?
> 
> I haven't tried that but I expect that it will not look good because the
> rendering algorithms are different.
> 
> I will be probably moving new labeling to use directly text drawing in
> future since path drawing is several times slower...
> 
> Martin

For what it's worth - the PDFs I've seen produced by ArcGIS and Mapinfo do have the text as text and the buffer as a path, but the buffer is quite simplified, at least for small text (and it can look quite bad).

Alister